I have been thinking about font costs lately and am starting to wonder how other graphic designers approach the purchasing of fonts.
Are you a bulk buyer taking advantage of packages?
A person who buys only when you need a specific item?
Someone who impulse buys when they see something nice because ‘it’s bound to be useful in the future’?
Maybe you only use free commercial use fonts?
Perhaps you fall into more than one category. Also, do you always use the same resource or shop around? What are your favourite font sites?
Please leave a reply to share your answers and opinions.
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If I am looking for a font that’s a bit different for a heading or maybe a logo I tend to go to Dafont.com which has a great search facility that allows you to search by type of font (putting in a word you want to see the font in). You can aso choose if you want free fonts, shareware fonts etc.
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Thanks Tara, yes Dafont can be useful. I’ve taken to using Font Squirrel a lot lately!
I hadn’t heard of Font Squirrel – I will have to check that out – thanks
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